027: The Last Jedi and 2017 Movie Recap
Jan 09, 2018
Episode 27 Wow, it's hard to believe it has nearly been a year, but excited to discuss Star Wars: The Last Jedi and look back our favorite movies of 2017. We have some guests filling in our regular spots and look ahead to some of the bigger movies coming in 2018 as well. Thanks for listening! 00:48 - Guest Intros & First Impressions 09:42 - Last Jedi Spoilers 21:09 - Last Jedi continued 31:19 - Last Jedi continued 40:46 - Last Jedi last thoughts 46:43 - Guardians vol. 2 52:58 - Spider-man: Homecoming 1:00:08 - Wonder Woman, Justice League 1:13:05 - Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers 1:22:29 - Logan 1:27:50 - Lego Batman 1:35:08 - War of the Planet of the Apes, Dunkirk, It 1:43:35 - Get Out, Bladerunner 2049, various other movies 1:52:45 - Favorite movies of 2017 and looking to 2018 2:00:00 - Final Thoughts http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
026: Still Kickin'
Apr 06, 2017
Episode 26 We're still kickin' it with episode 26 of our podcast. Starting off with a special tribute to our favorite Oscar winner, we end up discussing a ton of cooperative games like Pandemic Legacy, Mechs vs Minions, and some in-depth discussion revolving around Fireteam Zero and game design in general. We then take a glance at Netrunner before diving in to LCG design before closing out the show with a deconstruction of the Disney-movie strategy and taking risks in movies. Thanks for listening! 00:36 - Oscar-Winning Suicide Squad 04:36 - Pandemic Legacy 11:55 - Mech vs Minions 25:10 - Fireteam Zero 41:53 - Fireteam Zero continued 45:17 - Netrunner 57:02 - LCG Design 1:03:03 - Disney Tangent 1:08:29 - Tangent Continued 1:21:19 - Final Thoughts http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
025: Rogue One and the New Year
Jan 09, 2017
Episode 25 We bring in 2017 with episode 25, starting with our Star Wars: Rogue One discussion and a look back at all the movies from 2016. Moving on to 2017, we talk about the newest trailers before moving to game talk with the Kingdom Death: Monster Kickstarter and Mechs vs Minions. The legacy games model becomes a focus before we finish with gaming resolutions for 2017. Thanks for listening! 00:54 - Rogue One 11:56 - Rogue One Continued 27:10 - 2016 Movie Recap 38:45 - Bladerunner, Alien: Covenant Spider-man: Homecoming 49:28 - War of the Planet of the Apes, King: Skull Island 56:14 - Kingdom Death: Monster 1:04:12 - Mechs vs. Minions 1:12:35 - Legacy Games Discussion 1:23:18 - New Year's Gaming Resolutions http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
024: Strange Escape
Nov 18, 2016
Episode 24 We're back! Episode 24 brings a ton of content, starting with some Kickstarter board games before moving on to a recap of our first Escape Room experience! We've put in a live reaction recording and then talk some more about the relationship between escape rooms and board games before connecting to the popular legacy games format and the newly announced Netrunner campaign expansion following in the same vein. Finally, we move to a Dr. Strange review, discuss some other shows and trailers, and end with some video game talk. Thanks for listening! 02:35 - Control, Manhattan Project 15:23 - Escape Room Reaction 41:17 - Escape Room Continued 47:23 - Legacy Games, Netrunner: Terminal Directive 58:43 - Dr. Strange 1:14:49 - Luke Cage 1:27:06 - Westworld 1:36:47 - Ghost in the Shell 1:43:28 - Battlefield 1 1:58:31 - Final Thoughts http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
023: GenCon, Suicide Squad, and a Pig!
Sep 22, 2016
Episode 23 Episode 23 finally sees us talk our GenCon thoughts and the Suicide Squad discussion, so there's plenty of love, hate, and games to keep you entertained. We talk the Star Trek RPG, the Luchador Wrestling Dice game, Sharknado, and Chaosium's panels. As a bonus, you get to hear what it's like carrying a squaling pig! Thanks for listening! 00:54 - The Pig Story 04:01 - GenCon overview 06:38 - Star Trek RPG 09:16 - Luchador! Mexican Wrestling Dice 15:48 - 2 Rooms and a Boom, Sharknado 21:39 - Chaosium Call of Cthulhu Panels 25:30 - Running Call of Cthulhu at GenCon 42:30 - Suicide Squad 1:02:30 - Gotta Hate Games 1:12:17 - Star Trek Discovery 1:18:58 - Wrap-up http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
022: Trekking Beyond Comic-Con
Aug 16, 2016
Episode 22 Episode 22 kicks off with our thoughts about the new Star Trek Beyond movie and a bunch of other Trek related news (it is the 50th anniversary) before moving to Comic Con trailer talk where we cover Marvel, DC, and some other studios' movies. Please note this was recorded before Gen Con, the Suicide Squad opened, and before certain Star Trek Discovery details were released. Thanks for listening! 00:49 - Star Trek Beyond 14:53 - Star Trek Beyond Continued 24:31 - Star Trek Discovery 29:29 - DS9, Axanar Lawsuit 36:15 - King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Kong: Skull Island 42:00 - American Gods 45:33 - Marvel Trailers 51:59 - Justice League, Wonder Woman 1:02:30 - DC Continued 1:12:00 - Final Thoughts http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
Gen Con 2016: Call of Cthulhu Panel
Aug 06, 2016
Gen Con 2016: Call of Cthulhu Panel The Chaosium Crew celebrates the launch of the Call of Cthulhu 7th edition RPG at Gen Con 2016 discussing in-progress works, plans for the future, and answers a bunch of fan questions. Panel featured Mike Mason, Sandy Petersen, Jeff Richards, Paul Fricker, and Lynn Hardy. Thanks for listening! 01:06 - What the game is 02:26 - New campaign "Children of Fear" with Lynn Hardy 04:54 - "Doors to Darkness" scenario collection for new Keeper's 06:02 - Production standards going forward (6:53 Sandy enters) 08:25 - Pulp Cthulhu 09:59 - Pulp Cthulhu Campaign "The Two-Headed Serpent" with Paul Fricker 13:44 - "The Tales of Sandy Petersen" by Sandy Petersen Fan Questions 17:59 - Dreamlands plans? 21:06 - Why 2 books for 7th edition? 24:49 - Cthulhu Dark Ages? 25:48 - Breaking into RPG writing? 30:50 - How Sandy got into RPGs 33:21 - Will you be able to "regular" Cthulhu with "Pulp Cthulhu" rules? 34:42 - Best intro scenario for new keeper/players? 40:43 - Crowdfunding in the future? 41:41 - Additional "Pulp Cthulhu" content moving forward? 42:39 - Favorite time periods to run/write scenarios in? http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
Actual Play 005: Horror on the Orient Express - Lausanne 1
Jul 25, 2016
Episode 21 Hot on the heels of E3, we start things off with some video game news with the major press conference announcements, Battlefield One, Resident Evil 7, and Death Stranding. Jared then talks about his experiences with D&D 5e before we move into a non-spoiler boardgame discussion about T.I.M.E Stories. As a bonus, we've also included an impromptu recording made immediately following a session of T.I.M.E. Stories with gut reactions and immediate feedback. Thanks for listening! 00:47 - Press Conference Overview, New Systems 03:08 - Battlefield One 20:53 - Resident Evil 7 28:15 - Death Stranding, VR 34:40 - Jared plays D&D 45:46 - T.I.M.E Stories Discussion 56:45 - T.I.M.E Stories Postgame Reaction 1:19:00 - Final Thoughts http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
020: Two Months Late
Jun 14, 2016
Episode 20 We recorded this one back in April, but there's plenty to catch up on as we talk Dark Souls and a Ghostbusters Kickstarter before shifting to movies as we discuss Dr. Strange, Hollywood Racism, the Magnificent Seven and Ben-Hur remakes, and some thoughts on the Star Wars: Rogue One Trailer. Thanks for listening! 00:54 - More Batman vs Superman 04:28 - Dark Souls Kickstarter 15:49 - Ghostbusters 22:37 - Dr. Strange Trailer 31:52 - Ghost in the Shell, Hollywood Racism 45:39 - Magnificent Seven, Ben-Hur Remakes 52:49 - Star Wars: Rogue One Trailer 56:39 - Final Thoughts http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
Actual Play 004: Horror on the Orient Express - France
Jun 07, 2016
Episode 19 We set out to just do a review of Batman vs Superman but ended up discussing a bunch of fun board games such as Burgle Bros and En Garde. Plus, don't miss our freestyle raps as we discuss Legend of the Cipher: The Game of Hip Hop. We end the show with some Chaosium organized play news and shout out the Zephyr: Winds of Change Kickstarter from our friends at The Portal Dragon. Thanks for listening! 00:56 - Batman vs Superman 33:46 - Burgle Bros 38:44 - En Garde 42:49 - Legend of the Cipher: The Game of Hip Hop 55:40 - Final Thoughts http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
Episode 17 Note: Keeper's Corner starts at 52:18. The crew finally catches up to 2016 with our actual post-holiday episode, kicking things off with Great Fire of London before moving into some Ninja Turtles Kickstarter discussion and then movie/tv talk. As a bonus, we bring you our first Keeper's Corner, where Jay talks about the ongoing Call of Cthulhu campaign from the Keeper's perspective. Learn some tips, tricks or other interesting things we've done to make our roleplaying experience what it is. Check it out, play some games, and thanks for listening! 01:05 - Happy New Year 03:06 - Great Fire of London 13:13 - Deadpool & Superbowl Trailers 20:08 - Civil War & More Trailers 28:27 - X-Files Reboot 34:14 - Ninja Turtles 43:31 - Tentacle Bento 45:46 - Feedback & Uncharted Talk 52:18 - Keeper's Corner 54:26 - Background, Changes, Optional Scenarios 1:01:52 - Keeping Style, Unforeseen Events 1:10:45 - Outro 1:13:38 - Final Thoughts http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
016: Haterade
Feb 02, 2016
Episode 16 The normally cordial Out of Space crew gets their hate on for trailers, games, and movies alike. Don't worry though, we also talk about plenty of things we liked including some cool board games like War of Kings and Codenames. Thanks for listening! 00:55 - Star Wars Battlefront 08:31 - More Battlefront 17:12 - FF7 Remake 24:57 - Fallout 4 32:46 - Codenames 38:10 - War of Kings 51:37 - Jessica Jones 1:01:25 - Superman vs Batman: Dawn of Justice 1:10:21 - Star Trek Beyond, X-Men: Apocalypse 1:19:43 - Captain America: Civil War, ID4 Resurgence 1:29:12 - Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 1:31:52 - Final Thoughts http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
The Star Wars Special Episode!
Jan 19, 2016
The Star Wars Special Out of Space Games brings you a special episode of our podcast focused on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Passions run wild and all opinions are debated as we finally share our thoughts and feedback on the biggest movie franchise of all-time. Please note that this is a spoiler filled episode and Dean's audio still has issues. Thanks for listening! 01:58 - Initial thoughts 10:54 - Stuff we liked, Pacing 24:30 - Characters 37:43 - Special Effects 46:10 - Soundtrack, Throwbacks 52:17 - Ratings 1:01:00 - Wrap Up http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
Actual Play 003: Horror on the Orient Express - London 3
Jan 08, 2016
Actual Play 001: Horror on the Orient Express - London 1
Nov 10, 2015
HOTOE Episode 1 It's finally here! Out of Space Games brings you Horror on the Orient Express, a Call of Cthulhu RPG campaign, the actual play podcast. Join us as we officially begin our adventure in 1920s London, but we can guarantee you it won't stop there. Follow our brave investigators lead by their keeper Jay and find out what perils lie ahead. Thanks for listening! Follow along with our handouts and other docs here! *Note: Don't read the time breaks below if you don't want anything spoiled. 01:29 - Special Abilities 07:10 - Scenario Background 15:35 - The Professor 17:58 - The Job 26:14 - The Room 40:22 - Police Station 44:21 - The Shop 53:17 - The Association 58:34 - The Hotel 1;00:38 - The Dinner 1:07:57 - The Toy 1:20:15 - Credits Music from Sense Impacts by Chad Fifer and Horror on the Orient Express by Alex Otterlei Sound FX from freesound.org http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
014: Lovecraft and Call of Cthulhu Actual Play Episode: 000
Oct 23, 2015
Episode 14 RPG character creation starts at 25:10. In this week's episode, we discuss one of our favorite horror writers as we approach Halloween. In addition to talking Lovecraft the man, we also discuss the mythos in general and a bunch of games and influences his work has inspired. At the end, we finally start our Call of Cthulhu RPG by rolling some characters and filling in the backstories for our brave investigators. Listen to the process of character creation and the hilarity when appearance rolls go bad. Thanks for listening, and join us next time for the exciting start to our campaign! 00:50 - Intro to Lovecraft 16:48 - Mythos Board Games (Arkham Horror, Cthulhu Wars, Delta Green) 25:10 - Call of Cthulhu Character Creation 49:20 - Character Intros 56:26 - Final Thoughts *Note: Some audio issues this episode http://hppodcraft.com/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arcdream/delta-green-the-role-playing-game http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
013: The Unlucky One
Oct 05, 2015
Episode 13 Welcome to the unlucky episode... whatever that means. We kind of go off the cuff and talk about a wide variety of topics from games to tv, kickstarters to movies in a jam packed episode full of discussion. Some of the bigger topics we cover are Space Cadets: Dice Duel, the upcoming Spaceteam board game, a ton of Kickstarter arrivals including Kingdom Death: Monster, Warfighter Wave 2, and Coven. In other media, we venture to Suicide Squad movie talk, the Marvel TV/Netflix universe, Resident Evil movies, The Flash before moving to TV reboots including Prison Break, X-Files, and Heroes Reborn. Thanks for listening! 00:42 - Apologies and updates 02:00 - Space Cadets: Dice Duel 15:15 - Spaceteam Kickstarter 20:00 - Kickstarter Arrivals 29:45 - More Kickstarters 34:26 - Comic/TV talk 43:06 - TV Reboots 56:05 - Video Games, Shout Outs, Final Thoughts https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mathewsisson/spaceteam-0 http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
012: Zephyr Smorgasbord
Sep 21, 2015
Episode 12 Out of Space Games had the opportunity to demo an upcoming board game called Zephyr: Winds of Change from The Portal Dragon, and have plenty of thoughts and feedback, including a live session with one of the game's creators! We move from there to digital card games and Hearthstone before diving back into deck building games, starting with an odd one called Barbarossa. We end with some discussion regarding the newly released Journey: Wrath of Demons from Marrow Production. No overall theme for this episode, but there's plenty of content and topics. Note: we do still have some technical issues that are affecting audio quality, but are working on fixes. Thanks for listening! 01:30 - Zephyr: Winds of Change 04:01 - Zephyr Live Impressions/Interview 14:11 - More Zephyr talk 27:36 - Hearthstone, Star Wars Card Trader 38:32 - Wizard World Con, Barbarossa DBG 47:59 - A games we're picking up (Legendary Encounters: Predator, Arctic Scavengers, Shadow Hunters) 51:15 - Journey: Wrath of Demons 1:04:10 - Final Thoughts http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
011: It's Asymmetric
Aug 31, 2015
Episode 11 We discuss one of the really cool genres and exciting franchises as the Out of Space Crew talks about asymmetrical games! Starting off with one of our favorite board games called Tomorrow before moving to the modern-day classic Cthulhu Wars, we end with Aliens vs Predator talk, both video and board game versions. Not a ton of topics, but we get to dive deeper in each one. Thanks for listening! 00:55 - What is asymmetrical? 08:07 - Tomorrow 16:49 - Cthulhu Wars 25:33 - Aliens vs Predator 2 PC 40:03 - Aliens vs Predator Board Game 49:25 - Quick Hits and Final Thoughts http://facebook.com/outofspacegames http://twitter.com/outofspacegames http://youtube.com/c/outofspacegames http://plus.google.com/+outofspacegames
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